# Nobels - cond-matter
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
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David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz “for theoretical
discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
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Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue lightemitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010
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Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the twodimensional material graphene”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
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Charles Kuen Kao “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in
fibers for optical communication”
Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit– the CCD sensor”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
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Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in
subatomic physics”
Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken
symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
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Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett “for pioneering contributions
to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
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Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein
condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the
properties of the condensates”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
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“for basic work on information and communication technology”
Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer“for developing semiconductor heterostructures used
in high-speed- and opto-electronics”
Jack S. Kilby “for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit”
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- The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
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Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui “for their discovery of a new form of
quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996
David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson “for their discovery of
superfluidity in helium-3”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994
“for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for
studies of condensed matter”
Bertram N. Brockhouse “for the development of neutron spectroscopy”
Clifford G. Shull “for the development of the neutron diffraction technique”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes “for discovering that methods developed for studying order
phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in
particular to liquid crystals and polymers”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987
J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Müller “for their important break-through in the
discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986
Ernst Ruska“for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first
electron microscope”
Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer“for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
Klaus von Klitzing“for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1982
Kenneth G. Wilson “for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase
transitions”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of lowtemperature physics”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977
Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck “for their
fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and
disordered systems”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973
Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling
phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively”
Brian David Josephson “for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent
through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the
Josephson effects”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer “for their jointly developed
theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970
Louis Eugène Félix Néel “for fundamental work and discoveries concerning
antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid
state physics”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
Lev Davidovich Landau “for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid
helium”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain “for their researches
on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952
Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell “for their development of new methods for nuclear
magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946
Percy Williams Bridgman “for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high
pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume “in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision
measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915
Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg “for their services in the analysis of
crystal structure by means of X-rays”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914
Max von Laue “for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes “for his investigations on the properties of matter at low
temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals “for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithiumion batteries”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner “for the development of super-resolved
fluorescence microscopy”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
Dan Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007
Gerhard Ertl ”for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa ”for the discovery and development of
conductive polymers”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998
Walter Kohn ”for his development of the density-functional theory”
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# Parents
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* Condensed Matter Physics (selected topics)⏎